Top 10 Must-Read Books for Parents

As a new mom, cradling your little one, you're flooded with countless questions and concerns. How to help your baby adjust to family life? How to understand and respond to the needs of a newborn who communicates solely through cries? These questions bombard you, leading to a frantic search for guidance from various sources. In the midst of this, you find yourself trapped in a cycle of mistakes and the exhausting battle of parenting.

“Parenting is Not a Battle” is a book by Vietnamese authors that helps you comprehend your baby's biological rhythms and how to align family life with their biological clock. With a scientific approach from around the world, practical parenting experience, and a touch of humor, this book aims to make motherhood a joyful journey filled with laughter.

Moreover, it guides you on feeding your hungry baby, provides practical experiences, and shares success stories from other 'desperate moms' to give you both information and the motivation to change your parenting style at home.

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While raising children, we often find ourselves in the midst of a battle between reason and emotion, as if constantly walking a tightrope. An inappropriate reaction can wither a child's soul, while timely praise can inspire them to flourish. In every moment, we must choose to build or destroy, to warm or chill the young soul.

Conscious Parenting is written with the hope that readers, especially parents with teenagers, grappling with the role of parenthood, find their lifeline.

And it's never too late, even for parents struggling to connect with children of any age. Of course, if you have younger children, establishing a solid foundation early brings even more benefits.

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Incredibly Ruthless Incredibly Loving is the narrative of a Jewish mother born and raised in Shanghai, who nurtured her children to become millionaires.

The Jewish people are a mysterious ethnic group, producing many great philosophers and successful entrepreneurs worldwide. Although not numerous, they hold a tremendous hidden power, controlling the pulse of the world. Integrating Chinese and Jewish educational methods, Sara believes: 'Those who pamper their children will one day have to bandage their wounds. Softness is harmful, ruthlessness is love!' She also compares: 'Some Chinese parents love their children like a uterus, while Jewish parents love their children like a pile of fire.'

Child-rearing is a subject, an art, that everyone must study. Pitiful is the heart of parents in the world; if they don't learn how to raise their children properly, they will undoubtedly incur frightening and regrettable consequences. 'The child wants to learn, but the parents don't teach' is as heartbreaking as 'the child wants to raise, but the parents are no longer.'

So, how should parents scientifically educate their children? That is a question and also a significant issue closely related to the success or failure of an individual, as well as the prosperity or decline of an entire nation.

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Giving birth, being a mother, and breastfeeding are the divine tasks bestowed only upon women. However, does providing food and drink to a child ensure their holistic physical and intellectual development? Human potential is not a hidden superhuman energy waiting to be unearthed; it is something newly discovered, from a completely blank state, like a blank sheet of paper.

Mother's Strategy Changes a Child's Life will elucidate the mission of parents: to stimulate at the right time, evoke at the right time, cleverly nurture a child's passion, allowing them to take the best steps into the future.

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It's Too Late to Wait Until Kindergarten is a book discussing the education method for children from 0 to 3 years old by the author Ibuka Masaru, the founder of Sony Corporation and an educational researcher.

Based on studies of brain physiology and genetics, he affirmed that a child's intellectual and cognitive development is determined in the period from 0 to 3 years old. This period is considered the 'sensitive period' to 'nurture a child to be obedient, joyful, intelligent, and healthy'.

It might seem unreasonable, especially to Vietnamese parents who often believe that a child at this age is not aware enough to understand what we say, let alone receive education. However, with scientific evidence accumulated over many years of research, Ibuka pointed out that it is the lack of maturity that gives infants endless potential. Compare infants to other animals in the natural world. When they are born, they already have basic instincts such as being able to move independently, and some can swim after a few hours. However, our children know nothing but crying and breastfeeding.

They are like blank sheets of paper that parents can write on. Additionally, the human brain consists of about 14 billion brain cells, and they will connect with each other to process the entire perceptual information. The more external stimuli they receive, the more connections are formed. By around 3 years old, a child has completed 70-80% of the connections and has a brain weight equivalent to 80% of an adult's brain. If we consider the brain as a computer's CPU, the period from 0 to 3 years old is the time to complete the hard drive, and from 4 years old onwards is the time to update the software. Therefore, a child's personality, cognitive abilities, event connections, and creativity all depend on education during the infant stage rather than waiting for the child to grow up.

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A joyful pregnancy begins with the mother's efforts. This book covers all the issues that concern mothers and everything mothers must know from preparing for pregnancy throughout the pregnancy until your child is 12 years old. The specialized, practical, detailed knowledge, first published in Vietnam, is distilled from counseling sessions with expectant mothers.

A specialized book that captivates women with occasional bursts of 'oh, that's how it is,' 'it's fantastic' moments with practical knowledge compiled in a heartfelt, concise language. Motherhood is a lifelong calling for mothers. If you want a healthy and intelligent child, ladies, you must read this 'Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Raising a Healthy Child' now!

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Raising a child involves countless methods. Therefore, focus on building a connection with your baby rather than overthinking parenting techniques. While you can't single-handedly change that sense of pain, surely, just changing your perspective, altering your mood, a new life will unfold. Pregnancy is also an opportunity for you to learn how to change your mood with your wonderful companion, your beloved child in the womb. Please remember! Babies are born to meet their parents. It's not that parents choose the baby, but the baby has chosen the parents to be born to.

This is a vividly described book about vibrant pregnancy and parenting methods from the womb. A subtle invisible thread that mothers today do not know about the baby in their womb. Ask questions about who the baby is, why the baby chose the parents, why not another couple, what is the relationship between the baby and the parents, how the baby and the mother can understand each other, why the baby changes everything around us... Many questions why. And this book will answer those questions and even open up a new perspective on a tiny life cuddling with us.

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The book A Good Mother is Better than a Good Teacher is a handbook on parenting by educator and master Doãn Kiến Lợi. With nearly two decades of parenting experience, she combines a solid theoretical foundation with practical experience gained through direct teaching and interaction with many children, extracting valuable lessons in this book.

A Good Mother is Better than a Good Teacher addresses many small and large issues in the process of raising children, but in summary, it can be encapsulated into two aspects: nurturing the soul and intelligence of the child. The author does not write about overly grand and abstract things; instead, Master Doãn Kiến Lợi nurtures the soul and intelligence of children from the simplest things, as the author wrote, 'For children, there are no small matters; everything small for children is significant.'

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“Nutrition During Pregnancy” is like an encyclopedia on the dietary regimen for women during pregnancy, covering comprehensive knowledge on issues that any pregnant woman would care about, such as Tests, Common toxins, Dietary supplements, and Postpartum period.

Unlike other pregnancy guides, “Nutrition During Pregnancy” will thoroughly explain the controversial issues in modern nutritional science and turn common doctrines into fresh insights. The book is a breakthrough in nutritional science and healthcare.

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